I made a mistake earlier this week and dared comment on an article on ubuntukids which reminded me of a certain gastric delicacy. We had a couple of replies, one from the author which was in English and the other which was probably in Esperanto. The author was pretty gracious (though I was most definitely mistaken!) and though he has yet to actually produce any examples of open source innovation (as opposed to straight copying), I think he’s not a bad sort. The second replier came back to add a bit more vitriolic ad hominem attacks. Apparently my arguments can be discounted because I’m an “effete arrogant Mac bastard” and I’m not artistic because I use the default WordPress theme as opposed to some pretentious brightly coloured theme hocked off a free themes site. Poor me. That’s what I get for only having half a brain.
One of the advantages of having half a brain is that, for the most part, it seems to put me in the lead (certainly compared to that resident of Illinois) in terms of sheer brain mass.